Cold Email & Deliverability | Growth | Partner @ Vinna.ai

If you're interested in improving your cold emails, you've come to the right place.

I’ve worked with clients like Discord, HP, Jellysmack, L'Oréal Paris, Fourthwall, Creative Juice, PearPop, and many more — sending over 60 million cold emails across different industries.

I combine cold email and outbound GTM expertise with AI solutions, smart automation, and deliverability optimization to help businesses scale their outreach and consistently book meetings.

My passion is sharing the knowledge I’ve gained from 5+ years in outbound sales, lead generation, and email deliverability with businesses and individuals who want to get the most out of their cold emailing process.

If you think there’s any way we can help each other, feel free to DM me!

Jovan Shojlevski

How most cold emailers clean their lead lists:

1. Export their contact list
2. Upload it to a verification tool
3. Wait
4. Download the results
5. Re-import the clean list
6. Suppress the bounces

That's 2+ hours per week.

8 hours per month.

Almost 100 hours per year.

On something that should take 0 minutes.

And don't get me started if you do crazy sales volume.

I switched to Bouncer AutoClean since it came out.

It: 

1. Connects to your CRM.
2. Verifies new contacts every hour.
3. Reverifies existing ones automatically.
4. Suppresses undeliverable emails on its own.

I haven't touched a verification CSV since.

And my bounce rate has been as low as ever.

Automate the boring stuff.

Spend your time on what actually makes you money.

Landing 1.2M+ cold emails/month in the inbox at Grow Surely

I check 6 things before sending any sales email campaign.

(Skipping even one can destroy your deliverability)

1. DNS setup → MxToolBox

SPF, DKIM, DMARC must be perfect.

If anything is in red, I let the domain warm up for longer.

No exceptions.

2. Domain reputation → Cisco Talos

If a domain's reputation isn't perfect, nothing is sent from it.

3. Email verification → Bouncer

Every email gets verified before it touches a campaign.

It also identifies spam traps, breached addresses, and complainers.

Invalid/untrusted emails = bounces = reputation damage.

4. Copy readability → Hemingway Editor

Grade 7 reading level or below.

If a 14-year-old can't understand it, simplify it.

5. Mailbox warm-up → Instantly.ai

Every mailbox needs at least 14 days of warm up.

I also always leave backup inboxes to warm up for longer.

6. Sequencing → Instantly.ai

Randomized times. Random intervals.

Predictable patterns trigger spam filters.

That's it.

6 checks. <15 minutes. Every campaign.

I track a metric that most cold emailers ignore.

It's not reply rate.

It's not open rate.

It's lead-to-valid-email rate.

Here's what I mean:

You build a list of 1,000 leads.

You run them through an email finder.

Only 400 come back with valid emails.

That's a 40% lead-to-valid-email rate.

Which means 60% of your research was wasted.

I used to deal with this every week.

Hours spent building lists.

Half the leads had no usable contact info.

It was the most frustrating bottleneck in my workflow.

Then I switched how I source leads.

I start with Prospeo.io 

And it's not just for enrichment.

But for the entire list build.

Here's why it changes everything:

→ 280M+ contacts with pre-verified emails
→ I filter by ICP before I ever export
→ Every email is verified at the source
→ My lead-to-valid-email rate went from 40% to 90%+

That means from 1,000 leads, I get 900+ valid emails.

Not 400.

Same effort. More than double the output.

Here's what that looks like in practice:
Old workflow:

→ Scrape leads from 3 different tools
→ Cross-reference in Clay
→ Run emails through a verifier
→ Lose 50-60% of the list
→ 4 hours of work for 400 usable leads

New workflow:

→ Build the list directly in Prospeo
→ Enrich for personalization
→ Push to Instantly.ai
→ few minutes for 900+ usable leads

The best campaigns don't start with better copy.

They start with better data.

If you're losing half your list before you even send, fix the source.

Martin MacArthur

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👋 Who Am I?

I'm Martin MacArthur, an outbound sales expert with 14+ years of experience in sales development, managed services, digital marketing, and technology. Despite being completely blind due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, I’ve mastered tools like Apple’s Voice Over to ensure I stay ahead in my field. Fluent in braille and passionate about leveraging tech, I’m here to show that no challenge is too great when it comes to driving business results.

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I specialize in filling top-of-funnel sales by helping companies drive pipeline growth with qualified leads. My expertise lies in creating innovative outreach strategies and executing them to perfection, ensuring businesses reach their sales potential.

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By using a blend of innovative technologies and personalized sales techniques, I help businesses find and nurture new opportunities. My approach is straightforward: identify your sales challenges and solve them through strategic, top-of-funnel activities. Every interaction is a chance to create value, and I focus on creating lasting partnerships that result in long-term growth.

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I bring persistence, tenacity, and a strategic mindset to every sales opportunity. Whether I’m connecting with new leads or guiding companies to success, I believe in making the process collaborative and results-driven. With me, it's about turning potential into performance—one step at a time.

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Whether you’re a startup aiming to scale or an established company looking for fresh leads, I’m here to fill your funnel and drive growth. Let’s work together to take your sales process to the next level with creativity and expertise.

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If you’re looking for a sales professional with a unique perspective and a proven ability to generate qualified leads, let’s chat! I’m always open to new connections and opportunities where I can add value.

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I just spent 30 days in Costa Rica with my head down, so your reps can finally keep theirs up.

We have all had that person knock on our door.
They give a cookie-cutter pitch.
They stare at a tablet.
They get rejected.
Then they move on to the next house after getting the door slammed in their face.
It is a waste of time for them, and a nuisance for you.

For years, most of you have known me as The Outbound Sales Guy. I am the guy who made 250,000 cold calls entirely by ear.
But 250,000 dials taught me something I could not ignore. Technology is actually making us worse at selling.

I have spent my career in a world without screens.
Because I am blind, I do not get distracted by visual interfaces. While others are looking at buttons, I am hearing the hesitation in a customer's breath or the precise moment the rapport is lost.
And what I hear in the trades right now is a major problem.

Reps are losing high-ticket jobs because they are too busy fighting a CRM interface on a tablet to notice the homeowner’s body language.
I call it the Eyes-Down Epidemic. When the rep looks at the screen, the connection dies.
I have been in Costa Rica finalizing the blueprint to fix this once and for all.

I am officially launching RYF pronounced RIF.
RYF is a voice-first Sales Operating System. Think of it as a Heads-Up Command Centre that acts as a co-pilot for your field team.

We handle the CRM, the boring admin, and the data entry in the background via voice so your reps can stay eye-to-eye with the customer.
No more cookie-cutter pitches.
No more tablet-staring.
Just real conversation.

We are currently in our Beta phase, building the Ground-Truth with veteran Sales Leaders in:

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